I took a quick look through the AJ lock forums and didn't see it mentioned, so I want to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong. Has anyone else noticed that with grimoire of sacrifice up that spell lock doesn't actually lock out the school, it just silences?

It actually locks instantly, it's just the blanket that's delayed, so it's not really a problem unless you go for the blanket.dunno if this is known by everyone, noticed pretty fast after dueling some with it.

Yeah that delay wasn't there before 5.1, only if you used the actual pet, with Sacrifice it had no delay before 5.1...

everyspell has deleys, even the pet freeze as a mage (i dont even) even our blanket seems to be bit slow aswell. im not sure if its cause of xrealms or some new spell system but everyone seems to be complaining about the same thing (but on mage pet freeze) spell rather then blanekt